It is a laboratory for future generations

Of course, in a "red" issue, do a portrait of the prince of tomato flowed from source. Except that... Louis-Albert de Broglie, who has in his vegetable 647 varieties of tomatoes, takes a perverse pleasure to extol you the beauty of the Yellow Bell, yellow, the Black Prince, black, or the Evergreen, green... And it is endless! He has even done a book on the subject: tomatoes of yesterday and today (Hoëbeke), it is not invented! Since 1995, date in which he created this Conservatory of tomato in his château de La Bourdaisière, ten kilometres of Amboise, his passion was that grow. "I started as a game, then I was fascinated by the diversity of varieties by their difference in appearance and taste." Today, collectors from around the world send me seeds and I still have the margin: the Seed Savers Exchange has identified ten thousand kinds! "The list of cocktails, that offers the master of House to visitors in his bar in tomatoes, is therefore endless. As cooking classes, that can be followed to La Bourdaisière, time for a weekend, they practice the recipes concocted by the prince. Over the years, Louis Albert de Broglie is more and more passionate nature, its protection, and what follows, our food and our health.

This investment was due, certainly, the origins of the gentleman. The love of the terroir is closely related to the fate of the great families. The brother of the current Duke of Broglie grew up in the family Castle located in the Eure, and nature has always been part of its environment. However, his career began at the offices of Paribas. "I was me mergers acquisitions and counseled major hotel groups. With however already a desire also: part two-year and a half represent the ban - as in India. In 1992, is the change of direction, this time, radical. He acquired with his other brother, Philippe Maurice, the château de La Bourdaisière, to make a hotel, and then hears the call of the Earth. Three years later, he created a line of clothing and accessories for the garden he christens the Prince gardener, his nickname. Its deck and its tools become the preserve of the Deauville or Eygalières gardeners. Luxury gadgets The image is misleading because behind this brand, no doubt, redolent of niche marketing stands a man sincerely concerned with the living.

He proves by buying the House Deyrolle in 2001, "just because I could not accept that this school of nature disappear." But on February 1, 2008, a fire destroyed part of the premises. "We redid all the same and that we even more motivated to expand the educational vocation of a place." Today, it has constantly to promote the Deyrolle planks for the future in which all aspects of sustainable development are explained. "This is the great challenge of our time: how to preserve the Earth." Finally, two years ago, he bought out the shares of his brother and took, alone, the direction of La Bourdaisière. Always hotel with 26 rooms entirely redecorated, the castle became the showcase for biodiversity, with its hundreds of tomatoes, his thirty lettuce, its 50 herbal... "At the time of the industrial standardization, it is essential to show the richness of nature." Keep to transmit. It is a laboratory for future generations. "Not surprisingly therefore not be the motto of the Broglie"for the future. "